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The New Ranks of $100,000-a-Year Jobs: Veterinarians, Physician Assistants, Actuaries

April 7, 2017 2:19 p.m. ET

About three dozen occupations in the last decade crossed the threshold to now pay an average of $100,000 a year, nearly doubling the number with average salaries that high. Credit a combination of inflation and real wage growth for many technically difficult professions since 2007. Indeed, a handful of medical jobs crossed another line: They now pay an average of over $200,000 a year. The new data comes from the Labor Department’s Occupational Employment Statistics program, which tracks salaries and wages for hundreds of different job categories. The data provides an annual glimpse into the earnings of specific...